Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Origins of Dingo's in Australia
Dingo's are domesticated dogs that arrive with the first people's in Australia. Weirdly, Dingo's are classified as like vulnerable or threatened. It's an interesting debate in Australia right now about Dingo's. Some people would like to classify them as a pest species. They're just a dog that's gone feral. But they're, they're a wolf. I mean, sorry. They, they, okay, they're originally from a wolf. Right? And it's not our gray wolves. It's a gray wolf ancestor. Whatever lineage dogs come from that gray wolf ancestor is most likely not with us anymore extinct but very closely related to our modern gray wolves.
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